Word: seder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Catholic and I'm Jewish, "Weiss says.["This year] I'm going to be pretty insistentabout him coming to my seder. I just want him tohave more of an understanding...
...realized I was feeling under attack as well," Allen recalls. "And then it was Passover and I couldn't find a seder to go to. It sort of felt like spring never came...
Jews across the world celebrated the Passover Seder, the ritual retelling of the Exodus, this past weekend. This is a joyous holiday, as everyone knows. However, it is not unmitigatedly happy. Integral to the Seder is the spilling of drops of wine in memory of the plagues visited on the Egyptians; we honor their suffering. On the day preceding the first night of Passover, the Fast of the First-Born is observed in mourning for all the Egyptians, innocent youths and guilty taskmakers alike, who perished so that the Jewish people could be liberated. We are not permitted to celebrate...
...sitting politely at my friend's Passover Seder in quaint Newton, Mass., when the inevitable question arose: "Where are you from...
...Seder itself demonstrates the tension between freedom achieved and freedom still to be attained. Conceived at a time when the Jews were ruled throughout the West by Rome, the Seder was a meal based on the feasts of the ruling aristocracy--a forceful, concrete expression of a lust for freedom. Drinking the wine of joy and tasting the bitter herbs of slavery, we experience both the freedom and the unfreedom around us. Most importantly, we repeat aloud our dedication to furthering the struggle...